Atossa Araxia Abrahamian is a journalist based in Brooklyn. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, the London Review of Books, and other publications. She has worked as an opinion editor at Al Jazeera America and a general news and business reporter for Reuters. Atossa grew up in Geneva, Switzerland, and studied philosophy as an undergraduate at Columbia University, where she returned for a master's program in investigative reporting at the Graduate School of Journalism. Follow her on Twitter @atossaaraxia

Giving the bidoon citizenship would mean paying them the same generous social welfare benefits that Emiratis enjoy. So nine years ago, the United Arab Emirates came up with a solution: it began paying the Comoran government hundreds of millions of dollars to issue them passports.

The car bomb that killed the investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia on Monday did not go off in Honduras, Afghanistan or any other country where one might expect to hear about brutal violence against reporters. The device exploded in the early afternoon down the road...

18-year-old Amos Yee went up against the repressive Singaporean government with ideas and tactics he learned on YouTube. Then he fled to the US to seek asylum in the country that all but invented trolling. Now, he’s stuck in an immigration detention center, in limbo....

Like a lawn mower. Like a chain saw. A bulldozer. A buffalo. A suffocating goat. A wounded warthog. Many, many more varieties of unhappy livestock. The sleep deprived find comfort in these unflattering similes — which, as it turns out, do have some scientific basis.

A day or two without foreign labor might teach Theresa May and her cabinet a thing or two about the value of a diverse workforce and force xenophobes to reconsider their position on how people from the EU and beyond can help Britain.

The surprising thing about H.R. 158 is the way it treats some dual nationals as second-class citizens, ignoring their mixed heritage or their decision to build lives abroad while denying them rights and privileges their compatriots can enjoy. This is un-American.

As all eyes turn to Paris for the COP21 Climate Conference, we’re excited to introduce journalist Atossa Araxia Abrahamian speaking about her new book The Cosmopolites - The Coming of the Global Citizen.

Booked is a monthly series of Q&As with authors by contributing editor Timothy Shenk. For this special podcast edition, Tim spoke with Atossa Araxia Abrahamian about her book, The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen (Columbia Global Reports, 2015).

In her debut book ‘The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen,’ journalist Atossa Araxia Abrahamian travels the globe to meet willing and unwitting “cosmopolites,” or citizens of the world, who inhabit a new, borderless realm where things can go very well, or very badly. Abrahamian will be introduced by Nicholas Lemann, director of Columbia Global Reports and New Yorker staff writer.

By effectively outsourcing buying decisions to someone else, these services attempt to help people avoid what Barry Schwartz describes as the “misery-inducing tyranny” of the modern American marketplace.

Time stood still: for better or for worse, there was nothing in the world but Justin Timberlake’s “Mirrors.” The experience felt oddly adolescent—suddenly, the attention that I was focussing on a song was as intense as it had been in high school.

Existing governments have no interest in making themselves vulnerable by opening up their borders, so the only solution is to go create thousands of “start-up countries” in the legal vacuum of international waters.

Call it citizenship tourism, passport peddling, or the latest frontier of global capitalism: In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, cash-for-citizenship programs and investor visas have become an appealing gambit for strapped economies.